People complained about Windows 7 coming out so soon after Windows Vista, and look how many of us use it. ;-) I'm not saying you were complaining of course... Just made me remember.

Who complained about Windows 7 coming out "too soon"? Seriously, it couldn't have come quickly enough.

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Originally Posted by scyy

XP is the odd release out as far as longevity goes. MS is just going back to a release cycle similar to what it was prior to xp.

Nope. Never gonna happen. W7 will be the new XP for a while, it took them nearly a decade to get most users and push businesses to an OS upgrade, you really think they're gonna alienate their existing consumers? If they decide to scrap support for existing users of 7, businesses will intervene. Same thing happened with XP and it'll happen with W7. Windows 8 seems to be targeting the luxury market (smart phones/gaming PCs etc) no way will that affect support for Windows 7. Since XP support ends in around 2014, apparently, then Windows 7 support will probably last till 2020 at least, that's my prediction.Edited by Am* - 5/29/11 at 1:58am

If they plan on selling a new Windows every few years they had better plan on reducing the price heavily.

Either, properly reduce the price for people buying upgrade versions, instead of there only being a tiny difference (E.G. $200 for the full version, $150 for the upgrade? No.) Make it so that if I paid $200 two years earlier, the price for an upgrade is $100, maybe even less seeing as the previous legit key becomes invalid.

Reduce the price majorly because the amount they charge compared with the frequency they plan on releasing updates/new versions amounts to more people pirating. I'm not saying anything concrete, but I'll be thinking twice about upgrading if the price is the same price as Windows 7.... Because I bought Vista Ultimate at retail for Â£200, then Windows 7 Ultimate for Â£200 three years later. I will not be buying Windows 8 for Â£200 anytime soon. It's far, FAR too much for an operating system.